Action, Perception and the Brain: Adaptation and Cephalic by J. Schulkin

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The LTM records are normally inactive, and amount to a dead storage mechanism, not unlike, in principle, the dead memory records of, say, books or DVDs, inasmuch as they do not play a role in mental life unless activated. LTM traces are only effective in behavior when they are primed, and are more influential when retrieved into awareness, and converted into a fully activated trace in ST-WM. In its basic form, this model has remained largely unchallenged and unaltered, except for some hotly debated details, such as whether some bound traces are too short to be classified as ST-WM.

The second operates in the ST-WM range of a few seconds or tens of seconds, and can integrate bound material from any modality into an active trace that exists for a few minutes at most. Unlike very short-term binding, it seems to be very limited in capacity, and closely tied to selective attention. The neural mechanisms of these two kinds of temporal integration appear to be somewhat distinct from one another. Moreover, the two mechanisms seem to have evolved at different times, in different species.